Q's

 

Will I really be immortalised?

Much more than most celebrities, an emphatic yes.

Celebrity is of the moment, where the works of select artists have longevity beyond a collective memory of the current generation.

I ask: who ever is remembered? Unless we're heads of state, royalty or saints, few of our names will be read a generation after our death. However, art can be forever. Before you object to ask how I know I'll be remembered, I direct your thoughts to the reality that anyone who is THE FIRST is always remembered. Everyone remembers the first man on the moon and his famous quote, but not the second chap. Vindex created a new art form, a totally new genre of poetry when it was falsely thought the advent of Free Verse spelled the demise of invention with words. Literary Portraiture is the first of its kind. I am the first poet to use it.

And so a thousand years from now in café's, library's, bedroom's and Ivy League universities, LP will be studied and recited and your name and uniqueness remembered.

Generations of your future family, should you have one, will research their ancestors, and when your name is found, so too will the LP. That's the eternity of being

Is this all confidential?

Entirely. We both sign a contract that your name isn't associated with the work until after BOTH our deaths.

Vindex also has an Enhanced Security Disclosure, which helps provide you the secure knowledge that he is able to work with even the most vulnerable populations.

Why do you guard your identity so carefully?

If everyone recognised me, it would be nearly impossible to meet people on their own terms. What I mean is I need to be able to continue finding new life roles to expand my understanding; being a visible celebrity would hamper my personal growth.

Am I unique enough for LP?

Yes, Yes & Yes! Don't believe a word anyone has ever told you that you're somehow ordinary. I've never met nor composed a Portrait for person who wasn't unique. Typically people who have experienced a life pain are more aware of their uniqueness and so it's often easier to get to the root of a person. But that doesn't mean that a person with very little pain in their life is anything other than precious too. If you let me and are open to the experience, we can find these beautiful aspects together.

What kind of name is Vindex? Is that your real name?

No. The name not only protects my identity and that of my clients, but the name reflects my art as something that enervates, or brings a more rich appreciation of life. Where many art tries to encapsulate, mine is driven by an attempt to free and sketch the moment.

Why are you suddenly doing this for the public?

Because there are so many of you who deserve as much as my other clients. The main difference is there's no payment and the copyright remains with me. The second difference is that these works will be made public but with a false name to protect your identity unless you decide to disclose it.

As long as I or you are alive, no one will ever associate you with any given poem.

Why won't you disclose your client list?

Not only have we (artist and subject) both legally bound ourselves not to reveal one another, part of the idea of drawing the essence of a person to create a precious sculpture in words. This means we're presenting very private moments. These moments are to be kept private until after both my and the subject's death. As some of my clients are of some financial means, this ensures that no one gathers information that could be used to trace and ferret out aspects of their lives that could be potentially damaging if some nefarious malefactor decided to be less than scrupulous for personal gain.

Is the process enjoyable? Dangerous?

What is your background?

Vindex experiences in work and in life are varied. For more please click here.

What will the work look like?

Every work is different. Some are in a free verse style, others in strict meter and rhyme. Others address the subject, while still others act as a sketch of inner landscape. Every person's uniqueness determines the style of the poem. As well, some people have one work written about them while others a series. So it would be unfair to generalise or predict. Please see the Portfolio section for an idea of the kind of work that may be produced.

Did you really invent the genre?

Yes. There is 1 antecedent poetic form, 1 prose and 1 for visual art.

The poetic form is the Dramatic Monologue whereby the poet impersonates an individual and speaks through that persona to another imagined recipient of the speech. The subject of the poem is the speaker and we learn about the speaker through what is and is not said.

The prose form of the Character Sketch simply draws a biographical paragraph or more about a character. Children are often asked to do this as an exercise in school to gain a better sense of how an author draws a fictional character.

The visual art for is the Portrait, which draws from the image of a subject and portrays them visually. The portrayal could be realistic, impressionistic, or anything the artist decides between these two poles.

The Literary Portrait thus stands alone among the genres. LP may engage in dialogue like the Dramatic Monologue, but attempts to render a person's unique essence onto the page, allowing the subject to inform the form. So both physical and psychological characteristics may be used. The goal then isn't to know someone from the outside such as in Visual Portraiture, nor to mentally visualise a subject speaking as if the reader is in the room where the Monologue is taking place. A successful LP aims to elicit in a reader a reactive knowledge that says not only does the reader know the subject but can readily imagine being the subject. This is an "I am you" experience, a genuine moving of one person into another, fully, without hindrance, a complete sharing of being.